Now that folks
            are back from the winter holidays, any thoughts or comments
            on this?
         
        Thanks,
         
        - Konstantin
         
         
        
         
        Technology PMC,
         
        I believe that Sapphire has spent a
          sufficient length of time in incubation. The project is active
          and is behaving in the manner consistent with mature Eclipse
          projects. I am seeking approval from Tech PMC to file for
          graduation review in conjunction with the next release review.
          
         
        The next major release will be called
          Sapphire 8 (dropping the leading zero; last release was 0.7)
          and would release as part of Luna. Sapphire has participated
          in the last two simultaneous releases and is already part of
          Luna with 0.7 release currently contributed.
         
        http://www.eclipse.org/sapphire/
        http://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.sapphire
        https://www.ohloh.net/p/sapphire
         
        Sapphire has three committers (all from
          Oracle), but contributions from the broader community are
          readily accepted. To date, four non-Oracle developers have
          made contributions.
         
        http://www.eclipse.org/sapphire/releases/0.7/iplog.html
         
        Sapphire has made 25 releases so far,
          including seven major releases.
         
        http://www.eclipse.org/sapphire/releases/
         
        Sapphire is actively used in production
          software, both by Oracle and by other adopters. Of particular
          note is Liferay IDE, which has a significant portion of its
          portal tooling built using Sapphire.
         
        http://wiki.eclipse.org/Sapphire/Adopters
         
        The adopter forum is active.
         
        http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/f/192/
         
        The blog stream is active. If you are
          monitoring Planet Eclipse, you are probably tired of hearing
          about Sapphire 0.7 by now.
         
        http://lt-rider.blogspot.com/
         
        Sapphire was the first guinea pig to use
          HIPP and builds run continuously on every change on all active
          branches.
         
        https://hudson.eclipse.org/sapphire/
         
        Code quality is high, with 719 unit tests
          that run as part of Hudson build and very few outstanding
          bugs. API is steadily evolving and detailed migration guides
          are provided with each major releases.
         
        http://www.eclipse.org/sapphire/releases/0.7/documentation/releases/0.7/migration.html
         
        Let me know if I can answer any questions
          or provided further information.
         
        Thanks,
         
        - Konstantin